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War Hero

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe; attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time...like tears in rain... Time to die"

LE

LE

The Iranians can name as many streets as they like after dead terrorists. What's the problem?

After all, we've just put a statue up to a living one in Parliament Square.

Adam Smith - 1776 said:

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.

LE

Opening a snack bar on Bobby Sands Street - classic! Does it do a good chicken supper?

Once during a fever I remembered that when a European is dying, there is usually some sort of ceremony in which he asks the pardon of others and pardons them. I have a great many enemies, and I thought, what should my answer be if some modernized persons should ask me my views on this? After considering it, I decided: Let them go on hating me. I shall not forgive a single one of them.

War Hero

LE

Once during a fever I remembered that when a European is dying, there is usually some sort of ceremony in which he asks the pardon of others and pardons them. I have a great many enemies, and I thought, what should my answer be if some modernized persons should ask me my views on this? After considering it, I decided: Let them go on hating me. I shall not forgive a single one of them.

LE

not hunger strike, severe and untreatable 'ring of fire' brought on by too many vindaloos. He was actually on a celery only diet and it is a documented fact* that he always carried a couple of sticks in his loincloth.

* I wrote it down once.

The balance of probablity is that the aforegoing post will, at some stage, have been edited for mongtype.

LE

"He was a terrorist. And if the Iranians want to appear serious about fighting terrorism, one place to start is changing the name of that street."
The call comes from a member of Her Majesty's Foreign Office, and the offending road is Bobby Sands Street, a classic example of the wit and wisdom of revolutionary Iran, situated as it is next to the British embassy in Tehran.

Sinn Fein were seriously proposing to rename Merrion Road in Dublin, where the British embassy is located, to Bobby Sands Road. I see where the got the idea now. Came to nothing though because in the end nobody voted for them. (Renaming our streets after convicted terrorists not a vote-getter )